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the qio in pa is quality insights of pa.http://www.qipa.org/medprohomehealth.asp they have been much more proactive than our prior keypro organization.
cms: home health quality initiative
"the purpose of the hh obqi system is to enable and empower home health agencies to target any of the 41 outcomes the agency believes it needs to improve."
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/quality/hhqi/
my agency is signed up as test group to get obqi off the ground here. i can put you in touch with our qi manager if interested.
much focus on improving our client's functional status, pain mgmt, rate retrun to hospital.
better dig out our quality goal sheet as i'm at a loss for others :imbar
too busy in auth dream land as we have copay's for mc hmo's in my area to contend with!
REnerian:
Martha the QI director at my agency participates in conference calls with Quality insights asthey are PA reviewer.
KEYPRO lost PA's contract as not as proactive as Quality Insights. I see a BIG difference with QI providing tons of info and conference calls this year. Also, CMS has released $$$ and rebid companies across US to shakeup and improve quality for MC clients.
renerian, BSN, RN
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Are any of your home health agencies working with their QIOs on outcome projects? I am planning to submit one in the first quarter. Probably in late March.
renerian